revealing eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to off planet on which is iraq . you're a. u.s. evacuees who've been quarantined for weeks on board a japanese cruise ship because of the corona virus have now landed in california. i'm richelle carey this is out there live from doha also coming up syrian government forces have made significant gains in rebel held areas around aleppo. feeling forgotten the appeal for help for afghan refugees in pakistan. and the historic ruling in india women will now be allowed to service officers in the military.

after several days of declining figures the number of new corona virus infections in china has risen again really 2000 more people are reported infected on sunday the virus is down claimed 1770 lives on china's mainland forcing some cities to tighten controls even further than a city with more than 2500 cases of the virus has gone into complete lockdown it comes as the u.s. has begun evacuating hundreds of people from the diamond princess cruise ship and japan 14 of those evacuated were put and containment on the flight to the united states after they were confirmed to have the virus and in hong kong there's been reports of panic buying and one instance armed robbers stole hundreds of toilet paper rolls store clark joins us now from hong kong so sara what else can you tell us about these 14 confirmed cases of u.s. citizens having run a virus. this is an extraordinary and unfortunate situation

as you mentioned the american government sent through an aircraft to rescue those american citizens who are on board the diamond princess which is the the ship the cruise liner which is in quarantine for some time in your are now those passengers more than 300 of those american citizens are on a flight returning to the u.s. and i would just have confirmation from the state department that 4 tane of those passengers have now tested positive to the crowd a virus now those u.s. citizens already found to be infected with the crowd of us were left in quarantine in your camera but as i mentioned those passengers sent and rescued by that aircraft on a flight now back to the u.s. 14 of them have confirmed to be positive now with the state department says those passengers have been put in isolation in a specialized containment area on board that aircraft now the 1st flight is due to land shortly on a u.s. air force base in california and clearly all those passengers will then be put into quarantine for at least 14 days and to test those other passengers who are on board

that aircraft returning to the united states and in fact sarah we understand that that plane has literally just landed just in the in the last few minutes so china's parliament they have a schedule session of parliament apparently that's going to be delayed do we know why. well these are the latest lines suggesting that china's parliament discuss a proposal to delay the march session that much session was meant to begin on much 5 clearly with st 1000 delegates required for that particular parliamentary session and they need to be in beijing under these extraordinary circumstances and under these current quarantine rules clearly a lot of those delegates won't be able to make it in time to be there for that much 55th session there's also a new line that apparently the parliament of china's discussing the draft legislation of the band the wild animal tried and also says that the world health organization is now sending the delegations today

a delegation of experts to visit beijing province sichuan province during their visit to china and they've also just confirmed that one of those drug tests or the drugs have proved effective these are the the trials the world health organization is currently conducting now as you mentioned earlier that the cases continue to rise inside but there's been less deaths on sun that of course if you buy provinces got an extraordinary lock down for at least $60000000.00 people within the province and that includes no departures for those residents within the apartments once every 3 days that can leave to get the essential supplies of private cars have been banned from being on the roads and housing estates have put in place one entrance for the exit and entrance and obviously that's being tightly restricted and tightly monitored and in hong kong we do have an extraordinary situation of panic buying this panic buying continues it's very difficult to get rice in the current environment and at supermarkets and i may not tell you mentioned we had some feeds knife wielding thieves rob a delivery man at

a supermarket stealing hundreds of rolls of toilet paper to those men have since been arrested but certainly extraordinary times in hong kong and elsewhere ok with the latest wrap up there from hong kong thank you. and china's government is working to limit the economic impact of the virus tax incentives are being rolled out to help encourage companies to return to work millions of workers have been off the job for weeks as the government tries to limit the spread of the virus. 50 percent of our employees have returned to work bringing our production capacity to 50 percent we predict all of our workers went back on their post by the end of february and a production capacity will return to normal the government's also rolled out some measures to help enterprises and ensure their normal operation so we're encouraged and feel confident at least 5 people have been killed by a car bomb in a turkish controlled town in syria 5 others were injured when it detonated in the town near the turkish border thousands of civilians have been killed there by

a number of car bomb since turkish backed forces drove out the kurdish y.p. g. forces in october turkish state media have blamed the attack on the wife. and syrian state media is reporting that government forces have recaptured parts of aleppo province which was once controlled by rebels president bashar al assad's forces have made significant gains over the past several days seizing the strategic in 5 highway which links aleppo with the major syrian cities turkey which backs a section of the opposition is trying to stop those advances and rebels who have left those areas in aleppo and neighboring it live now see ankara's increased involvement is the only way to regain lost ground. reports say on turkey's border with syria. these are fighters from the national liberation front a rebel alliance backed by turkey outgunned and outnumbered the fighters secret

behind in newly erected embankment on the other side government troops are stepping up their campaign. we are consolidating our defense lines setting up small flexible command centers and most of the factions are coordinating their operations and our image to drag government forces into our own area fighting has surged over the last few days president bashar al assad's forces have regained control of many areas in aleppo and. their advance infuriated turkey which accuses said of violating the terms of a cease fire agreement turkey signed with russia and iran 2 years ago unka has sent more troops into it and expanded its military outposts despite that damascus insists its campaign won't stop turkey's growing involvement in the syrian

conflict is welcomed by the rebels who see it as an opportunity for a cold. we're still fighting to prevent assad's army and the militias backing him from destroying our villages and evicting civilians the morale of our fight is high and we are all determined to defeat assad the rebels have been weakened by internal fighting and divisions the national liberation front is one among many things operating in rebel held territory. is the most powerful it's an alliance of many groups with a strong presence in it live. gunshots were heard in tear gas fired during the latest anti-government demonstrations in iraq or testers fought with police who used smoke arms to disperse crowds in baghdad on sunday or testers say their tents were set on fire by security forces on saturday around 550 iraqis have been killed during months of protests against corruption unemployment and lack of government

services and you supreme court has ruled that women in the army must be given the same career opportunities as men it means female officers canal apply for permanent commissions which opens up command roles it's not yet clear though women will now be able to take part in active combat in court the indian government announced that many male soldiers would not accept female superiors judges said it was an insult to question the ability and achievements of women in the army. has more from new delhi. we're at the supreme court where female officers are celebrating the judge's decision the courts told the government that female officers should have what's called permanent commission that is they should be allowed to serve for the same duration as their male counterparts. even. long in the league. in defense forces so this day has finally come. ecstatic about the decision it's

it's a wonderful decision it's a decision that's come up and it tells everybody that women are equal to everyone else the men are no different and the women are no different so it's about equality for the supreme court also said that the government needs to change its mind set and that's because permanent commission was posited by the delhi high court in 2010 but challenge by the government which cited physiological features and societal norms as reasons why women couldn't have equality in the armed forces now the supreme court said that the government's grounds for denying permanent commission and for denying command positions are disturbing and need to be changed they cannot be accepted female officers hope that this paves the way for them to serve and command positions in all branches of the indian army so head on al-jazeera.

this was an agonizing decision for us that we didn't make slightly. automaker giant general motors announces it will shut down plants of lot of new zealand australia and thailand. also we take a look at art that's painting a different vision of the future. because i'm slightly quotes where the pushing into northern parts of europe now has got to be a very unsettled wake still have $270.00 such borders in force across parts of the british isles at present we are going to see the floodwater is continuing to rise for some but generally speaking it is starting to aim for a very blustery to see how tightly packed the remain across northern parts of you have in this cold front here that blue line on

a chart here that is what remains of storm dennis is it continues to drive its way eastward so not say much more rain on it for those northern areas over towards the eastern side if you get there will be some right and some snow pushing over to wolf as you can see it's getting stretched out we are going to see some rather heavy rain at times moving across central and southern areas of france southern parts of germany and down into switzerland where it will turn to snow over the following behind across say british isles as we go on through monday and audience to choose day as we go on a little further you can see how that may with a system that can teach drive his wife a swiss tempest picking up in moscow getting up to around 6 celsius there will be some rain and snow there of course but squatted down to central and southern parts of europe by this stage but a few showers there for the eastern side of the med. joining me maddi often as i put up from questions to my special guests and challenged them

to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. providing the clips into someone else's what. i didn't witness on al-jazeera. loop the. marching out to syria let's recap the top stories the number of new corona virus infections in china has risen again after several days at the klein only 2000 more people were reported to be infected on sunday with the death toll rising to 1770

syrian state media says government forces have seize most of aleppo province russian airstrikes assisted in the bush the turkish delegation is set to resume talks in moscow on monday to discuss the escalation in the area. and india's supreme court has ruled that women in the army must be given the same career opportunities men and means female officers can now apply for permanent commissions which opens up command was not yet clear that women will now be able to take part in active combat for our top story the crying a virus epidemic that has curbed travel and destructive global supply chains and spread to more than 2 dozen countries but one of asia's most populous nations is yet to report a single case indonesians who were evacuated from the chinese epicenter ruan have been released with a clean bill of health just a washington reports from one of indonesia's most important tourist spots. it's

quieter than usual on bali's beaches tens of thousands of chinese tourists who would have spent their winter holidays on the island have had to postpone their plans because of the corona virus outbreak who visit is from china who landed here before the outbreak escalated there were 2 choices return home or extend this stay at least 300 out of the 5000 who are here have applied for visa extensions but you and her husband are ready to go home the couple say they're confident chinese authorities and governments around the world handling the situation you know what we need to go back to our jobs and our children need to go to school so in our holiday we will immediately return home every year around a 1000000 chinese tourists visit bali and they would direct flights from where the outbreak began until they were stopped a few weeks ago as many ask how indonesia has seemingly avoided this outbreak for

now this concern the virus is present here but undetected somewhere in this vast archipelago a recent study by harvard researchers looked at data around the outbreak and its link with a travel volume it calculated the risk of an outbreak in countries with direct flights to when the outbreak began and found the disease could already be in indonesia some say indonesia is vulnerable. there are many ports of entry into the country so many airports and ways for people to get in and some areas don't have the right equipment to take to the virus. but authorities here are defending the measures taken by indonesia. we've been mapping the spread of what would happen if there was an outbreak we have $100.00 hospitals ready now and getting ready the facilities and personnel are prepared. the world health organization also says the country is taking the right steps to detect the virus

and prepare for cases. have. it's been confirmed one chinese national who travelled to bali has contract to the virus but it's not clear whether that happened in bali when authorities are looking into the case and on this island many are anxiously waiting to know just who washington 0. pakistan and the un refugee agency are holding a conference to highlight the challenges facing afghan refugees it's estimated more than 2000000 are sheltering in pakistan some have been displaced sense than 1979 soviet invasion ongoing violence makes returning home dangerous but a repatriation program is set to resume next month the un refugee agency says millions remain displaced from the time of the soviet invasion and most are either

in pakistan or iran but censored 1000 to more than 4000000 afghans have chosen to return home under a voluntary repatriation program the largest the u.n. refugee agency has carried out pakistan is hosting a conference to share the lessons learned to encourage other countries to share the cost of hosting afghan refugees at a refugee camp in the city of a shower he joins us live so the organizers of this what are they hoping to really try to achieve. 1st of all the main emphasis is really be to try back to try to bring back into focus the plight of millions of refugees who are still in budgets than there of course have been problems from international donors and very little help had been coming in but the great general of the united nations and turn your good carries himself was. secretary of the refugees said that pakistan has been

a wonderful whole he said that this is an issue which has been going on for almost 4 decades he also mentioned the fact that bug astonished hosting the 2nd largest refugee population in the ward and he appeared to the international community to come out with more janitors tried to solve the problems of did. however everybody knows that because of the situation in afghanistan many people are reluctant to go and so he would also hope that the peace talks that are underway perhaps would provide an opportunity for a wall entry. based on dignity and also on human compassion he of course has gone out of the way to tang boat iran and pakistan for hosting these refugees despite the fact that there is very little international help and for taking that blood and very little international help and as we said

some people have been displaced for decades now how do the afghan refugees feel that now that it's getting at least some attention. these refugees of course have been living here mentioned and everybody know it for decades many of them have said primarily because of the security situation rejects being worsening they have to be whole thing their dime 40 bad. day where of course you need different conditions inside of iran it's gone and of course there has to be a program. of course a lot of emphasis being poured on the fact that david indeed of a cd is problem and these people who are living in very bad conditions in some places. different leave to find some sort of.

living in very basic conditions this is one of the largest refugee. although 50 percent of the people have gone by a large number of children. and they don't know what happened in the future all right come on hyder and a shower thank you one of the un's top representative says the weapons and bargo on libya is a joke foreign ministers discussed fighting in libya on the sidelines of a security summit and munich on sunday they agreed on the importance of ending foreign interference in the civil war and stopping the flow of weapons because the un recognized government and warlord who launched a military offensive to capture tripoli the capital there due to resume on tuesday and it's been 9 years since the revolution that toppled longtime libyan leader moammar gadhafi the power vacuum sense then that the current crisis and ship the

late president say they have nothing to celebrate after coming under constant attacks from have tarsa forces. who were forced to leave their homes and aren't sure if they can ever return. half built to neglected for almost a decade these towers are on feet for habitation more than a 100 families who have fled fighting on the outskirts of libya's capital shelter here and now this tiny room is where samir elma had he and her 2 children have lived for the last 3 months there's no electricity or running water samir a says her son used to be top of his class at school but the school was closed because of the fighting she described what happened when she tried to return to her home with her daughter to collect more of their belongings. i swear the horror that this little girl has seen no other child has witnessed in all of libya the whole building in front of us collapsed the bombs were coming from

all sides our home was completely destroyed we could have been killed the nation says that more than 150000 people have been forced to flee their homes since general haftar started is offensive only to tripoli in april more than 600 people have been killed or injured now many libyans will be celebrating the anniversary of a revolution that overthrew gadhafi at the same time as the country is ensuring what many describe a civil war. international efforts to full just cease the failed renegade general he for half the states is offensive against the un backed government based in tripoli will continue. families attend an event organized by government forces to one of their sons killed defending the capital muhammad shock on says he still dreams of peace and a unified libya well i don't know when i heard my son had been killed i was shocked

but i hope god willing that he just like so many others who died for this country will be deemed a martyr and in next year's revolution anniversary will be better and all libyans can celebrate one unified libya where we and generations to come a kind of process. back in their tiny cold room in the town samir a says thousands of families like us have nothing to celebrate. the children that there are so many tragedies huge problems and there's people suffering even more than us i don't have any hope left there is no security to why and what all the celebrated another generation too young to understand can only wait for the peace and prosperity that was promised to their parents almost a decade ago. tripoli. the warring sides in yemen have agreed to a detailed plan for what's expected to be the largest ever prisoner swap their

immense saudi backed government and who the rebels have already released hundreds of prisoners a list of 15000 other names has been drawn up the timing of their release has not been agreed to but the u.n. special envoy to yemen hopes it will happen quickly. thousands of people rallied in dili's capital room on sunday to voice their support for inclusiveness and to condemn fascism the demonstration was organized by the anti populist movement call sardines the group rose to unexpected success in late 2019 and hope to continue growing their numbers the movements become a symbol of protest against right wing leader and former deputy prime minister in the tail sylvania. general motors is pulling out of australia new zealand and thailand as part of its years long global restructuring across all 3 companies countries that is the company employs about 2500 people the company is expected to

wind down operations in all 3 countries by next year and there are plans to make similar changes in japan russia and europe general motors says it's focusing on more lucrative markets and north america and china. regrettably despite the tireless work of many good people the business case could not meet g m's investment thresholds. factors working against further investment holden included the highly fragmented domestic markets for the raw and drop product. the economics of supporting the brand. and obviously getting to an appropriate level of return on our investment there secretary of state is in angola for the 2nd part of his 3 country tour of africa is meeting the president and foreign minister to discuss anti-corruption efforts and follows a visit to senegal where he discussed trade and security with president macky sall . then i got leaders and i also talked about islamist terrorism which endangers 350000000 people right here in west africa. it threatens americans too.

we are counting on senegal it is an important ally in this fight and i shared our friends that the u.s. will keep up this fight as well in addition we discussed how united states can continue training and supporting senator lees peacekeepers in the region erica number of almost 600 flood warnings have been issued in britain because a storm dennis eyelets battle strong winds as they struggle to land at london's heathrow airport rising floodwaters have forced hundreds from their homes in wales and parts of england and one person has died. and people in france are feeling the full force and dennis left at the sea inundated coastal areas of crating flood warnings are in place elsewhere $60000.00 homeowners are without power and northwest frantz. artificial intelligence gene editing food grown and laboratories they're all being developed now but what else can we imagine

will happen in the future that's the big question being asked of visitors at x. x. an exhibition and the u.s. designs for a different future is at the philadelphia museum of art every elizondo take a look it's an art exhibition not about the past not about the president but about imagining the future of everything like this 25 collage passports proposing a system to allow people to temporarily exchange citizenship a critique of a world where goods and services freely cross borders where humans often can't. it's one of more than 75 exhibits by designers tackling issues of the future and the human condition at a major new exhibition at the political view museum of art it is a vast show that tries to ask a lot of questions without necessarily giving answers. when you come to an exhibition about the future you might expect to see things like this robots and

there is one this is corey that looks at the interaction between robots and humans and artificial intelligence but this exhibition is also about a lot more these faces were created from d.n.a. extracted from discarded cigarette ends and gum on the streets the designer using the genetic information to render the portraits. there are several pieces related to food like these 2 salmon a larger genetically modified one next to a smaller organic one and a replica of steaks grown out of human cells from hospital waste both provocative ideas reflecting a future where food resources are strained the idea is to make people think about food as a cornerstone of human civilization and think about what will happen to food and the future of human diet as we start thinking about the big challenges that are lying ahead like climate change diversity loss and environmental pollution einstein

once said he never thinks of the future because it will come fast enough in this exhibit designers are the ones bringing their ideas for the future and not telling people what to think rather what to think about gabriel's on due. to the delphia. recap of the headlines right now on al-jazeera the number of new coronavirus infections in china has risen again after several days of decline in early 2000 more people were reported to be and fact on sunday with the death toll rising to 1770 meanwhile the us has evacuated its citizens from a cruise ship in japan which was quarantine because of this kind of virus outbreak 14 of those evacuated were put in containment on the flight to the united states after they were confirmed to have the virus sir clark has more on the impact of the corona virus. china's parliament discuss

a proposal to delay the session that mock session was meant to begin on march 5 clearly with st 1000 delegates required for that particular parliamentary session they need to be in beijing and under these extraordinary circumstances and under these current quarantine rules clearly a lot of those delegates won't be able to make it in time to be there for that much 55th session there's also new lines that apparently the pano china's discussing draft legislation to ban the wild animal tried syrian state media says government forces have seized most a province russian air strikes assisted in their push a turkish delegation is set to resume talks in moscow on monday to discuss the escalation in the area india's supreme court has ruled that women in the army must be given the same opportunities as men and that means a male officers can now apply for permanent commissions which opens up command roles but it's not yet clear women will be able to take part in active combat the warring sides in yemen have agreed to

a detailed plan for what's expected to be the largest ever prisoner swap there him and saudi backed government and who the rebels have already released hundreds of prisoners and a list of 15000 other names has been drawn up the timing of their release has not been agreed to by the u.n. special envoy to yemen hopes it will happen quickly. general motors is pulling out of australia new zealand and thailand as part of its years long global restructuring across all 3 countries the company employs almost 2 and a half 1000 people the company is expected to wind down operations at all 3 countries by next year all motors as it's focusing on more lucrative markets and north america and china so the headlines keep it on al-jazeera mourners to come up front as that next.

is bollywood cozying up to their on the road these far right hindu nationalist government lost to the indian film industry is best known creative figures. i made the house with the indian government targeting of minorities demonstrations against them in the road these increasingly authoritarian rule have sprung up across india so why is bollywood being so silent india's powerful film industry afraid of modi and the b j p i'll scream going to job up there and directing the haitian public but 1st ethiopian prime minister ahmed won the nobel peace prize and 2900 for ending a decades long conflict with eritrea.